The next edition of The Wire Salon takes a look at the emerging discipline of sensory ethnography, which straddles art and science, and pulls together film makers, theorists, sound makers and recordists.

Sensory ethnography has emerged in response to the way that anthropology has represented its human subjects in media, primarily through film. This new discipline, which has its roots in field recordings, sound art and ethnographic films, tries to develop a way of approaching anthropology's social concerns, maintaining its methodological imperative to clearly and accurately represent its subjects, while at the same time acknowledging that the audience for such research also makes up part of the meaning that it creates.

In short, sensory ethnography is an attempt to resolve the subjective, artistic approaches needed to make effective and engaging work out of empirical data, at the same time as accurately representing its observations.

Participants in the March edition of the salon include writer and theorist Alex Rhys-Taylor, and Nina Wakeford, an artist, film maker and course leader of the Visual Sociology MA at London's Goldsmiths College. The event will also include a specially recorded audio-visual introduction to sonic ethnography by the sound recordist and manager of the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab, Ernst Karel.

London Cafe Oto, 7 March, 8pm, £4 (on the door only). Facebook group here, and full listing here.

Wire contributor Alex Neilson's Trembling Bells have launched a new website, which includes an exclusive download of the group's live album recorded with Bonnie 'Prince' Billy in May last year.

Neilson is also starting a new club night with artist Lucy Stern called Squirming The Worm, held on the last Thursday of the month at Jim Lambie's Poetry Club in Glasgow, which will host free jazz and folk, film screenings, and will be the basis of a residency for Neilson's new duo Death Shanties with Sybren Renema.

More details on the new Trembling Bells site here.

UK group Red Snapper have composed a new soundtrack to 1970s Senegalese film Touki Bouki, directed by Djibril Diop Mambety and recently restored by Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Foundation.

The film, in French and Wolof (with English subtitles), follows young Africans attempting to reach Paris and find prosperity. The group, which is Rich Thair, David Ayers, Ali Friend and Tom Challenger, are hoping to take the project on tour. Red Snapper will be performing the soundtrack live on 24 April in the Queen Elizabeth Hall at London's Southbank.

Rich Thair says: "We are funding the whole project ourselves and are so proud of it, it's a really interesting blend of experimental UK music and a cult African road movie."

More details on the soundtrack here.

The 12th volume in The Wire's series of download-only compilations is available to all subscribers now. All editions, including Below The Radar Volume 12, are available here.

Below The Radar Volume 12 features tracks by: Joshua Abrams, Aluk Todolo, Natalie Beridze, Nathan Bowles, Maria Chavez, Dur-Dur Band, Grouper, Horse Lords, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Koyxeи Matsnaga (NHK), Powell, Psychological Strategy Board, Tuff Sherm, and Maia Urstad.

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Acousmatic composer and former GRM director François Bayle will be playing at London's Redsonic festival on 19 April. Bayle will be performing two multi-channel diffusion concerts, as the final two performances of the festival.

Bayle, who turns 80 this year, invented the Acousmonium (a sound system built from 80 speakers). His work was recently issued as a 15CD box set by INA-GRM (more details on that release here).

Redsonic festival takes place 11–21 April at various venues in London. This year the festival is teaming up with the Birmingham Electro-Acoustic Sound Theatre (BEAST), and will feature BEAST composers including Jonty Harrison, plus Peter Cusack and Rodolfo Caesar (who was part of the GRM in the 70s and 80s), among others, with more of the programme being finalised in the weeks to come.

Richard Skelton is looking for people to be involved in a new recording project exploring the language of rivers, lakes and other inland waterways. Whilst researching his latest book and CD, Limnology, Skelton uncovered over 1000 water-words in English, the dialect of Cumberland (now Cumbria, where the artist currently lives), Icelandic, Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Irish, Anglo-Saxon and Proto-Celtic, with the aim of creating a multi-channel sound work comprising recordings of people reciting the various words.

Skelton says: "I'm initially looking for people who speak Icelandic, Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Irish, Anglo-Saxon and Proto-Celtic, and who would be willing to be recorded reciting words from the list… I like the idea that many of these words will not have been spoken in decades – and in some cases, centuries – so it would be quite wonderful to hear them again."

Anyone interested in participating should email Richard at: corbelstonepress@yahoo.co.uk.

Laurie Spiegel has designed the latest Wire T-shirt. Spiegel says: "I'm tossing in a very nerdy idea, the little 'packed_structures.jpg' text image is left over from a coding project… There are plenty of coders out there doing software for music who might get a kick out of it."

Spiegel's design is printed in green on a navy blue shirt, in a limited run of 100 shirts which will be shipping around the the beginning of March. There's a close up of the code above, and the shirts are priced at £20 (including postage) with a £2 discount for subscribers.

Find Laurie Spiegel's T-shirt in the shop here.

Unsound festival has announced that it will be holding events in London and Adelaide this year, as well as its annual Krakow edition (13–20 October). The New York edition will not be taking place in 2013, but Unsound and the Polish Cultural Institute will be taking the groups LXMP, Piętnastka, Bambino Sound System and an exhibit of Polish Sound Postcards on a short US tour.

The London arm of Unsound will start on 17 March with a performance and screening of Andy Votel's Kleksploitation at the Barbican, with a fuller programme of events taking place later in the year. Festival organiser Mat Schulz says: "The main headquarters of our festival is in Krakow – and in recent years also New York – but Unsound has always been a very mobile project, with events having taken place in Warsaw, Prague, Minsk, Kiev, Bratislava and Tbilisi."

Unsound were invited to hold an event in Adelaide by the director of the Adelaide Festival, David Sefton, and that arm of the festival, which takes place 15–17 March, will host some of Unsound's commissioned projects including Biosphere & Lustmord's Trinity, Ben Frost and Daniel Bjarnason's Solaris, and Demdike Stare's Concealed.

As for London, Schulz says: "The Polish Cultural Institute has invited us to work with them on creating a program that will follow something along the lines of Unsound Festival New York. We're still formulating the concept and deciding on the scale – but there will definitely be a strong focus on Polish music."

More details on the Unsound website here.

Portland, Oregon based label Mississippi Records has launched its own website and is starting a subscription series. Send Mississippi any amount of money between $68 and $300 and they tap your funds to send you each new release until your coffers are empty. Once your money runs out, top it up to continue receiving records. They're accepting cheques and cash (no Paypal unless you're overseas, on matter of principal which you can read about in the FAQs).

What you'll receive is a copy of each release as it comes back from the plant, which Mississippi estimate runs to around three per month, but does not run to a regular schedule. Send back the form on the site to customise your subscription to particular genres, and you can send a record back if you don't like it (although you'll have to pay for postage yourself). Questions, including information about international shipping, to mississippisubscription@gmail.com.

More details, forms and FAQs here.

Our March 2013 issue is out now. Mats Gustafsson talks to Daniel Spicer about confrontational sounds and collective action with power trios and 30 piece groups. Plus, Clive Bell meets collagist and radio artists Ergo Phizmiz, Peter Shapiro's Primer on US Hardcore, and Little Annie is subjected to The Wire's Invisible Jukebox.

The Global Ear visits the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa for the month, and Alex Neilson writes on Topic records's digitisation project in Collateral Damage. Plus Bites on Alexander Hawkins, Powell, Scheme AV Strategies and an epiphany from Soul Jazz founder Stuart Baker.

Full issue details, including a list of releases reviewed in Soundcheck, as well as print, live and on site reviews here.